To wish we had more TV like this?

[SaintlyLady]

Last night I watched The Two Ronnies Xmas Special from 1982 and Sorry! from 1988.

i literally laughed out loud at some of the sketches in the Two Ronnies -

and Sorry! is an excellent example of my VERY favourite TV genre -

Home Counties set,
middle class,
middle aged,
middle England, ‘
’middle of the road’
sitcoms 🙌

AIBU to want these programmes back on linear BBC1 and ITV?

You never saw Miss Mountshaft but you could just imagine her!

Margot playing Maria really was funny!

From time to time, adult DD and I accidentally go out wearing the same colour clothes (we don't live together) and I always refer to us being 'Howard and Hilda'.

Yes all middle class

Rising Damp is fab, love Rigsby and Miss Jones (and it’s impossible to say “Miss Jones” without nodding your head vigorously, hands on hips)

It all went wrong didn’t it

shall we imagine what she would look like???

i envisioned her as plump, short, glasses, brown curly hair, comfy shoes

I’m also going to change my user name to miss mountshaft!

Tom and Barbara had paid off their mortgage which is why they could manage when he gave up his job to become self sufficient.

PK so good at being on the phone and acting it out when no one there!

the Christmas tree complaint!

I pretty much imagined her the same except the glasses!

how old do you reckon?

She was excellent! Christmas hasn’t been delivered!

Late 40s/50

Ah thank you ! I was so young at the time I missed this or didn’t understand the significance

Oh yes - I’ve just roared

it was delivered an inch short 😂😂

Tom had a good job designing plastic toys for cereal packets!

I don’t know if I would have understood either - I would have known M and J as posh and then yes would probably have thought the goods were working class as they were digging 😂😂😂

you are not alone

Fancy younger me thinking they were a working class couple 😭

That was hilarious! I’m laughing thinking about it!

Sorry! Is profoundly depressing. I absolutely hated it as a child and have zero desire to go back to that. And Ever Decreasing Circles. Just no. Fond memories of The Good Life though. I’m 60.

🤣 digging !!!

ah at least I’m not the only one ! That’s reassuring !

I could see why you would as their house and the way they dressed etc were so different from how Margo and Jerry lived!

Definitely not the only one - I don’t think I even knew about social class at all

I didn’t know it was cereal packet toys!

I think I’m gonna have to binge watch whole lot over Xmas

I'm also Two Ronnies over Morecambe and Wise.

Loved Butterflies and anything Wendy Craig did before that. The Good Life and To the Manor Born were both brilliant.

I have enjoyed rewatching As time goes by, the Derry Girls and the IT Crowd. I agree that Blackbooks was promising, but runs out of steam. I found Yes Minister a bit tedious the second time around.

Has anyone mentioned One Foot in the Grave? I thought that was excellent.

More up to date, I really liked The Detectorists - more like the old sitcoms than other recent stuff.

More and more I find myself watching American series and enjoying the humour but most of these are also now getting quite old.

You made me laugh with the digging!!!

In the very first episode Tom is designing a hippo to go into cereal packets!

😂😂

I met a border terrier called rigsby - great name

Gosh I can’t remember specific scenes on RD like this so much - rigsby being jealous about the acting partner?

no one has mentioned fawlty Towers!! I know all the words here - fave is kipper and the corpse